Non-motoring > I thought I'd left punctures behind me...... Legal Questions
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 I thought I'd left punctures behind me...... - Bromptonaut
>> The tyre is small and rigid and the lip on the rim is high making
>> fitting the tyre over it a knuckle stripping challenge.

Anybody who has tried to fit a Schwalbe Marathon to a Brompton will empathise with that. You push it in at one end of the remaining protruding bead and watch corresponding centimetres pop out at the other end.

I keep an old Rohan webbing belt in the toolkit specifically to restrain the bead with.
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 I thought I'd left punctures behind me...... new No FM2R 1 Nov 20 18:45
 I thought I'd left punctures behind me..... new legacylad 1 Nov 20 19:36
 I thought I'd left punctures behind me.. new Bromptonaut 1 Nov 20 19:54
 I thought I'd left punctures behind me..... new Zero 1 Nov 20 19:58
 I thought I'd left punctures behind me.... new No FM2R 1 Nov 20 20:49
 I thought I'd left punctures behind me..... new slowdown avenue 2 Nov 20 22:34
 I thought I'd left punctures behind me.... new tyrednemotional 2 Nov 20 22:37
 I thought I'd left punctures behind me... new R.P. 3 Nov 20 09:27
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